Ravehook
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A hooked hand tool for widening the seams of a boat to receive oakum. historical
"2012, J. E. Fender, The Lucifer Cypher Small fires […] smoldered in half a dozen places, where the few workmen paying oakum into Hampshires hull seams with ravehooks' would periodically repair to warm themselves."
- 2 a hooked hand tool used to prepare the seams of a boat for oakum wordnet
Example
More examples"2012, J. E. Fender, The Lucifer Cypher Small fires […] smoldered in half a dozen places, where the few workmen paying oakum into Hampshires hull seams with ravehooks' would periodically repair to warm themselves."